That feeling, when the answer is right in front of you

[andymx]

I spent a few hours reading about Joplin and its features. I wanted to gauge it against TiddlyWiki which is what I'm looking to implement as my note taking app. Joplin is fine, but its main weakness for me is the lack of a good reminders system that could cope well with repeating and missed reminders. On the plus side, I like its search feature. It's quite simple and certainly easier than that of TiddlyWiki.

Anyway, to get to the point, I started looking for a good Linux reminders app that I could install and use in parallel with Joplin. I spent a lot of time searching for something suitable, but I didn't find anything that I really liked. Then I came across a mention of Orage, but no details were given. You can imagine my surprise when I opened Orage in MX and I found how much sophistication it has about events, to do and journal entries. It has everything that I wanted. So the answer was indeed right in front of me, but I was looking for it elsewhere.

Having said that, I'll continue looking to using TiddlyWiki. Tiddly Wiki is portable, being a single file that can be opened in any browser. It has some excellent reminders plugins and because of its portability it will be a better choice for me than Orage.

[CharlesV]

Speaking of right in front of you ... :-) ... Have you tried the Thunderbird calendar Lightening?

I have used Thundebird for years, using google calendar behind it to provide the shared structure and pieces that were missing from lightening. However, Lightening has gotten better over the years, and is darn near everything I need now. Lightening integrates with various Calendar types and since I run Thunderbird open pretty much always, my calendars are all right there.

The last piece for me... loosing anything google, ( iI have had my calendar and contacts tied to google for Lightening, AND my android ), I found eteSync which is a calendar, task ,notes contact center - which is encrypted and private. The system is $24 a year, is encrypted and runs on linux, windows, android, iPhone and provides a very simple interface and method of sharing data across devices. This has now become the tool to loose google for any data use for me, and keep my data in Thunderbird, Lightening and on my android.

[andymx]

Well, I know about the existence of Lightning in Thunderbird, but I never used it. Even in the days when I may have had a real need to use a calendar for business purposes, I usually resorted to other ways of doing so, not excluding a paper-based system! Nowadays I need a calendar to remind me of people's birthdays, anniversaries and other such mundane matters. Strangely perhaps, I had never heard of eteSync until you mentioned it. Based on its description it's excellent for sharing data among various devices and in today's world having more than one device is normal for many people. Therefore a utility like this is quite valuable.

[Bamber]

Orage is a good example of "right in front of you".
Another is:
https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfc ... ugin/start
When lots of users are looking not for a full fledged Mail Client like Thunderbird but for a notifier with enough options, there this one is, right in front of you.

[andymx]

@Bamber Thank you for the information. Today I learned that the Xfce docs contain a lot of useful information. I thought that I had covered it all by reading the MX Linux Users Manual.